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The iPhone 5s Review — For much of the iPhone's life Apple has enjoyed a first-mover advantage. At the launch of the first iPhone, Steve Jobs expected the device and OS would give it a multi-year head start over the competition. Indeed that's how the market played out.

iPhone 5s is “the best smartphone on the market” — A New Touch for iPhone — Apple brings out a new top-of-the-line iPhone model every year, but a redesign only every other year. In the intervening cycles, the company tends to keep the phone's exterior the same, but change the innards and the software.

In Arrival of 2 iPhones, 3 Lessons — We can draw three lessons from the arrival of Apple's two new iPhone models, the 5C and 5S. — LESSON 1 Apple may have set its own bar for innovation too high. — Year after year, Steve Jobs used to blow our minds with products we didn't know we wanted.

iPhone 5s review — Forward-thinking. It's ironic that Apple's marketing slogan for the iPhone 5s invites us to look ahead to the future when, from the outside, the device looks like a carbon copy of last year's model, the iPhone 5. But just like any other odd-year iPhone — the “S” …

iOS 7 Review — iOS 7: The Pixel Envy Review — A year ago — to the day — I closed my review of iOS 6 by noting that Apple tends to prefer subtler updates: … You can therefore imagine how dumb I feel now, staring at a version of iOS that looks vastly different to those which preceded it.

The iPhone 5c Review — For years now Apple has followed a rather intelligent waterfall of its products down the pricing stack. With the arrival of every new iPhone, the previous generation gets a $100 discount from its on-contract price, and the generation before that one is offered for free on-contract.

iPhone 5C review: A cheaper iPhone that doesn't cut corners — The iPhone 5C is kinda, sorta, technically a new product — colorful, cute, with a variety of interchangeable color cases much like the recently released Motorola Moto X — but under the hood it's really an iPhone 5 with a new paint job …

Inside Dropbox's Quest to Bury the Hard Drive — With his prototype in hand, Houston made a demo video that he posted to Hacker News, the geek newswire offshoot of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's leading startup accelerator. Readers voted the video to the top of the site.

How Chattanooga beat Google Fiber by half a decade — They may not realize it, but starting today, some high-end Internet subscribers in Chattanooga, Tenn., will turn on their computers and start browsing the Web at a gigabit per second — 10 times the speeds they're used to.

NSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN, Contract Shows — The U.S. government-particularly the National Security Agency-are often regarded as having advanced offensive cybersecurity capabilities. But that doesn't mean that they're above bringing in a little outside help when it's needed.